5 Bevery Close, Oakley, Bedford, MK43 7SH

5 Bevery Close is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Oakley, Bedford, Bedford (MK43 7SH). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows a C (score 70). When first surveyed in March 2012 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 81).

Sale prices here have outpaced Bedford HPI: 7.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£278/sq ft) was about 58.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 127 m² the property is well over the postcode median (91 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2004. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £380,000 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.